Category Archives: Close of service

Close of Service, or COS, refers to the last three months of Peace Corps service.

A description of a service

By Scott Wallick | Published: Apr 2, 2004
Below is a copy of my Description of Service, or DOS. Every Peace Corps volunteer files a DOS at the end of service, whether it be an early termination or the conventional COS. This document remains with Peace Corps as it kept as the official record of my Peace Corps experience.
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Last words from Birganj

By Scott Wallick | Published: Mar 17, 2004
It's early still, but the warmth of my bedroom wakes me not long after the sun has risen. I roll out of bed, walk over to the kitchen, and begin making coffee. I turn on my shortwave to the BBC and listen as I pour my coffee, stopping to rub the sleep out of my eyes. As I sip, I look through my window to the wreckage of the abandoned dry port of Nepal. I can hear someone singing in a temple through a loudspeaker. The sites and the sounds make this place beautiful.
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Closing ceremonies

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 1, 2004
I was in Birtamod just after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with two guys from the Peace Corps office in Washington, DC. They were security. On guy told me that he had been doing, well, military intelligence in Somalia for a several years before retiring and coming to work for the Peace Corps. He told me that when Peace Corps has had to evacuate its volunteers from a country, it's usually because of families calling the office. Or a senator.
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Finishing touches

By Scott Wallick | Published: Jan 23, 2004
During training, one of the hardest and seemingly most necessary things I wanted to communicate to my host family was that I missed home. I missed home. I missed my friends. I missed pizza and beer as dark as the nights in my new, lightless neighborhood. But the best that I could do, after two months of Peace Corps' astounding language training, was to tell them, Ma yad garchhu, I remember.
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